Willem van de Poll

Willem van de Poll (April 13, 1895 – December 10, 1970) was a Dutch photographer, known for his photo reportage and for having become the official photographer of the Dutch reigning house.

Biography Born in Amsterdam on April 13, 1895, into a well-off family, he studied in Vienna right after the First World War and became the assistant of Alexander Korda.

Beginning his career with some press photos of a major fire published on the Berliner Tageblatt in 1920, he began to travel abroad extensively, becoming his most important feature. He worked with Associated Press and Black Star, and his press photo were published on all the most famous newspapers. particularly going to the newly founded state of Israel.

Van de Poll Archive Due to the standard copyright law in many European countries, his photos would automatically become freely available 70 years after his death, in 2041, but many of them were donated in 1996 to the Nationaal Archief and 30,000 are available on Wikimedia Commons by CC0 license.

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